Nashville Trip Pt. 2

This is what Clay wanted to do every single day! Unfortunately, there were a lot of storms this year...But we still got in a few days.

 The first year we went to Nashville, the mall, The Grand Ole Opry, and even the place that we stay at now were all closed due to the horrible flooding in 2010.

This year is was open! It was so nice to be able to stay within a 3 mile radius for most of our trip. It's not a vacation for me if we spend hours in the car.

I do that at home..

They have an amazing sports store in the mall. Clay wanted to try the rock climbing wall..usually I'm like, "Five dollars! no way!"..But we were on vacation and I caved.

He is so strong from all his karate, and water sports.

He made it look absolutely effortless.

Beast

At one point he was just hanging by his hands 

and pulled himself up like a pull up.

He even tried to lean back like the pros.

He was proud of himself..and rightfully so.

These are his latest obsession.

Not gonna happen

They do look cute together.

Downtown Nashville has an awesome park called Centennial Park. 

It has a life sized Parthenon..Not really sure why, but I guess it's cool.

We tried to get a half way descent photo..

I clearly don't use a good camera, or photo shop...We'll just go with that...

We probably should have tried NOT to take a good picture and they may have turned out better.

Clay always looks great.

It's such an artsy place. We watched this group of jugglers for awhile...

 and then Clay noticed the guy on the slack line...

He was fascinated with this guy..

He kept talking about how he wanted to be a slacker when he got older. :-)

He wants to ride on this swing every year..it's the little things.

Nashville Trip Pt.1

For the 3rd year in a row my two older kids have attended a music camp in Nashville. My parents are awesome and give us a free week at one of their timeshares. One of the places we went this year was  this cute little place called "A Cowboy Town".

The family that operates it also lives on the grounds. What a neat experience for their children.

This building is called the saloon...

It has swinging doors, checker boards, a stage and just the most awesome decor.

Love this sign

They are sitting this close to the fan because 

we went during Nashville's record breaking heat wave. 

Great. It was 103 degrees. Not kidding.

Look at the fun barstools at the bar.

The doors to the right are the bathrooms.

Terrible picture, but this was the most addicitng game ever! Clay is holding the round ring on the end of the string and the object is to get it on the hook protruding out of the wall. Honestly, they didn't pull their ipods out of their pockets once. Love that.

We couldn't get enough water that day.

Random photos of their property

I want one of these in my yard.

The family also has a small pond on their property.

They started way out and paddled like crazy to get the boat up on shore..

rather comical to watch.

The view from the pond..beautiful.

They had a little stream that you could "pan" for "gold". 

This was his very favorite thing..

He found so many painted rocks that I actually made him turn some back in :-/. 

I was afraid the other kids wouldn't find any..

One of their beautiful horses.

I love the old outhouse.

And the barn.

I couldn't get a good picture of the guy playing the washboard..

they were very talented. 

Then this guys walks out and he and his friend put on the cutest shoot out comedy routine.

This guy rode into town on his "horse".

Gearing up 

If you're ever in Nashville, check this place out..

We had a great time.